WO2012126057A1 - Bread maker and ice cream accessory - Google Patents
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- WO2012126057A1 WO2012126057A1 PCT/AU2012/000296 AU2012000296W WO2012126057A1 WO 2012126057 A1 WO2012126057 A1 WO 2012126057A1 AU 2012000296 W AU2012000296 W AU 2012000296W WO 2012126057 A1 WO2012126057 A1 WO 2012126057A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
- A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
- A23G9/00—Frozen sweets, e.g. ice confectionery, ice-cream; Mixtures therefor
- A23G9/04—Production of frozen sweets, e.g. ice-cream
- A23G9/22—Details, component parts or accessories of apparatus insofar as not peculiar to a single one of the preceding groups
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A21—BAKING; EDIBLE DOUGHS
- A21B—BAKERS' OVENS; MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR BAKING
- A21B7/00—Baking plants
- A21B7/005—Baking plants in combination with mixing or kneading devices
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
- A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
- A23G9/00—Frozen sweets, e.g. ice confectionery, ice-cream; Mixtures therefor
- A23G9/04—Production of frozen sweets, e.g. ice-cream
- A23G9/08—Batch production
- A23G9/12—Batch production using means for stirring the contents in a non-moving container
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- the invention relates to bread makers and more particularly to an interface and an ice cream making accessory for same.
- Automated bread making machines are well known . Domestic examples include the Breville® BBM800 , BBM600 , BBM300 and BBM100. Such bread makers are adapted to mix raw ingredients, knead dough and add selected ingredients such as fruit and nuts, automatically, at the correct time.
- the user interface comprises a display and controls for selecting the various features and options.
- a bread maker also utilises an electric motor to drive the mixing or kneading blade in a removable vessel or loaf pan ("the pan").
- a drive coupling is permanently mounted into the interior floor of the bread making machine and cooperates with a female coupling on the underside of the removable pan. Accordingly, the male coupling is now understood to be capable of driving an ice cream making accessory, in a bread making machine.
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bread making machine
- Figure 2 is a perspective view of an ice cream making bowl and scraper blade for a bread making machine
- Figure 3 is an underside perspective view of the device depicted in
- Figure 4 is an exploded perspective of the device depicted in
- Figure 5 is a top plan view, cross sectioned to reveal the interior of an ice cream bowl with alternate heat transfer fins
- Figure 6 is a top plan view, cross sectioned to reveal the interior of an ice cream bowl with alternate heat transfer fins
- Figure 7 is a top plan view, of a round ice cream bowl, sectioned to reveal the heat transfer fins
- Figure 8 is a cross sectional view of a bread making machine
- Figure 9 is a plan view of a user interface of a combination bread and ice cream making machine.
- Figure 10 is another view of the interface depicted in Figure 9. Best Mode and Other Embodiments
- an automated domestic bread maker 10 comprises a housing 11 having a hinged, top opening lid 12 and a user interface 13 located, for example, on an upper surface of the housing 11.
- the hinged lid 12 opens to reveal a compartment that is adapted to receive a removable loaf pan .
- the pan is used to receive raw ingredients, combine them and hold the ingredients during the cooking process that results in a loaf.
- the container is then removed and the loaf is demoulded whereby the container can then be washed and reused.
- FIGs 2 and 3 illustrate an ice cream making accessory 20 that can be used with a bread maker 10.
- the accessory comprises a generally rectangular freezer bowl 21 having the outward shape, configuration and size of (or no larger than) a removable pan for a particular bread making machine.
- the freezer bowl 20 further comprises a coupling component 22 that is adapted to be engaged by the rotating coupling located within the interior compartment of a bread making machine.
- the coupling component 22 comprises a circular disc 23 having radial extensions 24 that are located 180 degrees from one another. Other coupling configurations may be used.
- the coupling component 22 is surrounded by a stabilising collar 25 that is integral with the bottom of the freezer bowl 20.
- the collar 25 has one or more ribs 26 that engage with cooperating features within the compartment and that stabilise the freezer bowl 20 when the coupling component 22 is being rotated by the bread maker's electric motor.
- the collar may conceal a gearbox.
- the ice cream bowl 20 is illustrated as a generally rectangular sealed vessel having a central, round reservoir 27 that receives the ingredients for ice cream or frozen dessert making.
- the reservoir 27 is round in cross section so as to receive an ice cream stirring and scraping blade 28 that is removable using an uppermost ring-like handle 29.
- Figure 4 illustrates the mixing and scraping blade 28 and how it fits into the reservoir 27.
- the reservoir body is affixed to a cover 40.
- the edge 41 of the cover is permanently sealed against the rim 42 of the rectangular body 43 of the ice cream bowl.
- the body is a polymer such as a polypropylene.
- the space between the reservoir 27 and the body 43 is filled with both a freezer gel (or like substance) and an array of heat transfer fins 45.
- the fins may be a continuous corrugated array or made from several pieces that are either assembled separately or joined into a continuous array.
- the array 45 comprises a
- corrugations 46 formed from a thermally conductive material such as a metal.
- Each of the corrugations has a flattened inward directed surface 47 that preferably makes surface contact with the outside surface of the reservoir 27. The fins assist in transferring heat away from the reservoir and into the freezer gel.
- Each of the corrugations also has a radially outward flat surface 48 intended to make contact with the inner wall of the body 43.
- the lid 40 and reservoir 27 are a conductive metal such as aluminium.
- FIG. 5 A top plan view of the interior of the body 43 is shown in Figure 5.
- An alternate array of heat conductive ribs 60 is shown in Figure 6.
- the ribs form a labyrinth pattern, each rib being generally parallel with the long edges 61 of the body 43.
- the array is structured so that ribs have reservoir facing surfaces that lie close to or in surface contact with the outer surface of the reservoir 27.
- Thermal communication with the body 43 is maintained by providing flat surfaces 63 where a rib comes closest to the inner wall of the receptacle 43.
- Additional heat transfer capacity is provided by optionally providing a double wall 64 on those ribs that are closest to and parallel with a side of the receptacle 43.
- Figure 7 illustrates a further example where the freezer bowl 70 is round rather than rectangular.
- the array of ribs 71 comprises a periodic radial arrangement of like or similar ribs 72, each having terminal ends or tips 73, 74 in contact with or closely adjacent either the outer surface of the reservoir 27 or the
- mixing and scraping blade 28 is preferably driven by a top drive arrangement.
- a microprocessor device 8 1 regulates and controls an electric motor 82 with a vertical and downward extending output shaft 83.
- the output shaft 83 terminates in a gear 84.
- the gear 84 drives a belt 85 that is connected to a gear or sheave 86 located directly below the freezer bowl 87 when it is installed.
- a planetary gear box 88 is located between the belt drive assembly and the main drive shaft 89.
- the planetary gear box is contained within the collar and thus forms a part of the freezer bowl.
- the drive shaft 89 extends through the interior floor surface of the bread making machine and is protected by a tube 90 sealed with respect to the interior of the bread making machine.
- the drive shaft 89 extends, for practical purposes, to the upper extent of the mixing and scraping blade 28 when it is installed. Power or torque is transmitted to the blade 28 by a spline or coupling arrangement that extends between the top 91 of the drive shaft and the top or upper extent 92 of the blade.
- the rotating drive shaft does not need to be directly sealed with respect to the bottom of the reservoir 27.
- leakage from the reservoir 27 can only occur by fluids that reach the level of the seal 93 at the top of the drive shaft, this being generally above the nominal operating capacity of the reservoir 27.
- Figure 8 also illustrates that the freezer bowl 87 can have a double walled bottom 93, thus allowing freezer gel to be located below the interior floor of the reservoir 27.
- Figure 8 also illustrates an automated hopper 100.
- the one or more such hoppers 100 may be provided under the lid of the device.
- the hopper may be pre-filled with ingredients such as nuts or fruit etc. that would otherwise be dispensed into a bread making pan. These ingredients may be discharged into the ice cream mixture residing in the pan 27 at the appropriate time. In general, softer ingredients will be discharged closer to the end time of the ice cream making process.
- an interface for a combination bread making and ice cream making machine comprises a graphic display area 111 user inputs 115 located below the graphical interface 111 and other user inputs 113 located above the graphical interface 111.
- the inputs may be mechanical or electro mechanical buttons, switches etc and in this example at least one rotary selector knob 114 is provided below the graphical display 111 and preferably centred about the longitudinal mid line of the display 111.
- a significant feature of the graphical display 111 is a list 115 that is toggled by a user input 116 between a bread baking mode display and an ice cream making mode display (shown in Figure 10).
- individual bread recipes 117 are depicted in a vertical list, in text form.
- Each individual listing 118 is coupled with an indicator 119 that shows whether or not a particular item in the list has been selected by the user using the rotating selection knob 114. Accordingly, the inputs required from the user begins with a selection from one or more items in the list of entries 117. Upon selection, a set of default instructions is carried out by the device's micro processor.
- the upper right hand of the graphical display 111 shows, for example, three symbols that each represent a slice of bread.
- this array of symbols 120 one of the slices represents light crust, one represents medium crust and one represents dark crust.
- Below the crust selection indicator symbols 120 there is an array of bread size indicator symbols 121.
- the symbols are graduated, in increasing sizes, and labelled with typical loaf sizes, e.g. .5kg, .75kg, 1kg and 1.25kg.
- One portion of the display comprises a numeric countdown timer array 122 that provides feedback regarding the time remaining for a particular user selection .
- At the lower extent of the display 111 there is a graphic progress bar 123.
- Segments of the process bar are activated or illuminated, in sequence, to indicate phases of the bread making process such as preheat, knead, rise, punch down, bake and keep warm .
- selections are made by sequentially pressing the "modified" button 124, then rotating the selection knob 114 and then pressing the selection 114 to confirm a selection.
- One user input 125 allows the bread making process to be delayed by increments selected then confirmed with the selector knob 114.
- Another user input 126 toggles between imperial and metric units in respect of weight and temperature.
- the row of user inputs above the display 111 comprises the imperial or metric toggle 126, a beeper on/ off toggle 127 and a light toggle 128.
- the row of buttons or user inputs below the display 111 comprises the delay start selector 125, the recipe modify input 124, a cancel button 129 and a start and pause selector 130.
- the input or toggle for bread/ ice cream 116 causes the functionality of the machine to change and consequently these changes are reflected in the graphical display 111.
- Figure 10 the list of recipes changes from break recipes to frozen dessert recipes 140.
- the display now shows ice cream consistency with different symbols 141.
- the symbols 141 each indicate, for example, soft, medium or hard ice cream.
- frozen dessert batch or pail size is displayed 142.
- Text information 143 above the progress bar indicates the stages of frozen dessert preparation, including dessert type, in order of how long each recipe takes.
- the progress bar 143 has individual segments that are activated or illuminate indicate recipes pre-heat, cooling and mixing, granita or slushie, frozen yoghurt, sorbet or gelato and ice cream . Activating the toggle 116 returns the functionality and display characteristics to those discussed with reference to Figure 9.
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